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8. CMoropsis media. 



Phyllomis media, Bp. Consp. i. p. 396 (ex Midler, MS. in Mits. 



Liif/d.*); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 277, no. 4076; Wardlaw Ramsay, 



P. Z. S. 1880, p. 14. 

 Phyllornis aurifrons, Cah. Mus. Sein. Th. i. p. 114. 



'Adult male (Sumatra, C. Bock). General colour above bright grass- 

 green, the wing-coverts a little darker green than the back ; least 

 wing-coverts bright cobalt-blue, forming a shoulder-patch ; quills 

 blackish, externally green like the back, confined to the outer web of 

 the primaries, but extending over both webs of the secondaries, the 

 primaries slightly shaded with yellow on the outer web ; taU- 

 feathers green, dusky along the edge of the inner web ; forehead 

 yellow, extending over the centre of the crown ; lores, sides of face, 

 sides of throat, as well as the throat itself, and the hind neck black, 

 relieved by a moustachial line of purplish cobalt ; remainder of 

 under surface of body emerald-green, darker on the sides of the body 

 and Hanks ; under wing- coverts and axillaries emerald-green, the 

 lower ones light ashy grey washed with green, the edge of the wing 

 blue ; quills ashy below, lighter grey along the edge of the inner 

 web. Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-95, tail 3, 

 tarsus 0-8-5. (.17ms. R. G. Wardlaw Bamsai/.) 



Adult female (Mount Sago, Sept. 1, 1878; C. Bock). Yery similar 

 to the male, but without any yellow on the forehead ; round the eye 

 a ring of yellowish green ; no black on the sides of the face and 

 throat, which are green like the rest of the body ; a faintly 

 indicated moustachial line of greenish cobalt ; " iris dark brown " 

 (Bock). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-5, tail 3'1, 

 tarsus 0-75. {Mus. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay.) 



Young male. Green, like the old female, but with a brighter blue 

 moustache and yellow forehead, the latter, however, not so bright 

 as in the adult male. (Mus. R. G. Wardlaiu Ramsay.) 



The Orange-fronted Green Bulbul is, as far as is known, peculiar 

 to Sumatra. 



a. (S ad. sk. Lolo, Sumatra (C. Lieut. R. G. Wardlaw 



Bock ). Ramsay. 



b. 2 juv. sk. Sumatra (C. Bock). Lieut. R" G. Wardlaw 



Ramsay. 



9. CMoropsis nigricollis. 



Le Verdin de la Cochin Chine, Dauhent. PL Enl. 643, fig. 3 ; Buff. 



Hist. Nut. Ois. iii. p. .-392. 

 Turdiis cochinchinensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 825 (ex Dauhent.) ; Audeb, 



df Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. pis. 77, 78. 

 Philemon nigricollis, Vieill. Noiiv. Diet, xxvii. p. 432. 

 Phvlloniis cochinchinensis, Temm. PL Col. 484, fig. 2 ; Less. Bev. 



Zool. 1840, p. 164 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 124 ; Bp. Con.tp. i. p. .396 



(pt.) ; Gray, Hand-L B. i. p. 277, no. 4080 ; Walden, Ibis, 1871, 



p. 100. 

 Chloropsis nigricoUis, Nicholson, Ibis, 1881, p. 148. 



* Type examined. 



